I love Fringe, but the final two seasons were clearly its worst. And Season 3 is the runaway winner for best season - just amazing.

I'm only disappointed by the Vigilance twist in the most recent finale in that Terry O'Quinn couldn't guest star as the leader of a gang of anti-surveillance vigilantes.

I just want to put this out there: pressure and expectations are almost always the death of genuine enjoyment. Whenever I've really wanted to share something, I've lowballed it: I give very brief, vague descriptions and say stuff like, "It's possible you might like it, maybe, maybe not." I do NOT go into…

I was made quite happy to see Ezlo reciting the above essay.

There's been decades of games exploring the human condition - remember, all through the eighties and into the nineties story-based games were dominant, and the PC gaming audience in particular skewed older - and although many were couched in fantastic metaphors, there are many examples of games about accepting…

A million times this - and to add on, for many, play is only a legitimate use of time if there's the possibility of making money off of it.

For historical purposes, Wolfenstein absolutely counts. It was first. Culturally, it made no impact beyond being essentially a tech demo for Doom.

Oh, they're nothing like my mind's eye of the book either (what's great about it is how untechnical its science fiction is, and how human its mythic qualities are), its just I thought Kirby brought a really wild take to the idea of men become gods. Plus, Kirby is awesome.

Well, just imagine there were no FPSes. (Wolfenstein 3-D didn't count.) And then, one day there is one, designed around the concept of "meaty": meaty sounds, meaty gameplay (for the time), meaty chunks of demon lying in piles everywhere. It raised testosterone levels just looking at screencaps in magazines (cause…

You just made me want to read Doom novelizations. Thanks a lot, pal!

One of my many criticisms of the book is that it isn't quixotic enough - it has a classic American Road Trip structure but none of the loose energy and sense of unexpected discovery of the archetype. A longer, more episodic journey through metaphorical America would serve the story much better than the pretty…

Aargh, what a horrible lens with which to view that incredible novel.
In addition to being a longtime Zelazny fan, I'm also a longtime Jack Kirby fan - have you ever seen Kirby's designs for the Lord of Light themepark (later co-opted by the CIA for their "movie" as phony set designs)? They're mind-boggling.

"Why don't you get outta 'em space drawers and show me dat ASS?"

Andromeda's got me so upset
Betelgeuse make me lose my head
But every body knows about Aldebaran - Goddamn!!!

Here's what always worked for me: take another NES cartridge, and place it in the gap between the top of the opening and the intended game cart, wedging it until you can "feel" the connection. Easy.

I still can't believe Goode got reelected after ordering a firebomb dropped on his own goddamn city. Then again, I once voted for Ray Nagin, so I have no right to talk.

I'd even include planned (and mad racist) communities like Levittown under that umbrella, too.

I've long maintained that an undercurrent of separatism runs in the veins of Pennsylvanians, going back to Penn. Quakers, Amish, Mennonites, militia members, agrarian hippies, art communes, MOVE, various weird religious sects you've never heard of - honestly, the twist of The Village seemed less ridiculous than if I…

Bitties in the BK Lounge…all they do is beg and they scrounge…

I was hoping you'd get the first.